The central character is the 76 yr. old man, a war refugee who has been uprooted and displaced by the war. The old man is "without politics," who was only taking care of his animals, but who has had his world destroyed. He is disoriented, confused and disconnected. He has retreated into his isolated world in which he can only cling to his obsessive thoughts about his animals, and is too tired to go any further. He will die at the bridge--another nameless innocent victim of war.